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Thom Tillis, that pesky Constitution, and that annoying separation of powers thingie

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

McClatchy’s John Frank is doing his best to play arbiter and peacemaker among Raleigh Republicans. And we thank him for it.  He’s got a piece out about internal bickering among

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, NC legislature, Politics, Thom Tillis
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About that “council” running those pro-Hagan ads

Posted on July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    Viewers in my neck of the woods are getting peppered with TV ads telling us HOW GREAT Kay Hagan is doing in DC.  They are apparently being produced

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Beaufort County, TOO ???? (The ABCs of meddling)

Posted on July 14, 2013July 14, 2013 by Brant Clifton

I am sensing a pattern here :   Beaufort, Craven, Davidson.    (You folks in Edgecombe, Forsyth, Franklin, Granville and Guilford better get ready.) Controversy between a county GOP organization

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campaign 2014, Media, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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Kay Hagan: Creating Jobs, Making College Cheaper, and Saving The World From Flesh-Eating Zombies

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      I saw a commercial on TV the other morning that nearly made me spew my Cheerios.  Some vaguely-named council or coalition was running an ad praising US

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, Politics
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Roy Cooper ready to toss NC’s voters under the bus?

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

    The SBI has been horribly mismanaged.  The state crime lab has botched case after case after case. The feds had to come in and prosecute cases against Mike

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campaign 2014, Law & Order, Media, NC State Government, Politics
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Tillis, NCGOP caught meddling in Davidson County GOP business?

Posted on July 13, 2013July 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      Some Davidson County GOP leaders are telling me they see the hand of Speaker Thom Tillis and Raleigh-based GOP operatives involved in the process to fill an

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campaign 2014, Congress, Media, NC legislature, NCGOP, Politics, Thom Tillis
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The backstory on those license checkpoints

Posted on July 13, 2013 by Brant Clifton

License checkpoints by local police officers are getting a lot of attention these days. We had an incident in Brunswick County where deputies reportedly fired into oncoming traffic at a

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Law & Order, Media, NC State Government
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Thunder on the Left: SEANC opens fire on Janet Cowell

Posted on July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

We normally don’t see eye-to-eye with State Employees Association director Dana Cope, but his recent activities certainly have us intrigued. Cope has lashed out against the zip-tied rabble erroneously named

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Politics

DC’s GOP Powers-That-Be examining ALL options in NC’s 2014 US Senate race

Posted on July 12, 2013July 12, 2013 by Brant Clifton

      It’s been the conventional wisdom that State House Speaker Thom Tillis was national Republicans’ odds-on favorite to take on incumbent Democrat US Senator Kay Hagan in November

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campaign 2014, Congress, Kay Hagan, Media, NCGOP, Politics
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So THIS is what the underside of the bus looks like

Posted on July 11, 2013July 11, 2013 by Brant Clifton

An awful lot of us on the right worked hard to get Pat McCrory into the governor’s mansion in Raleigh.  There was  a lot of excitement in 2012 about the

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Media, NC legislature, NC State Government, NCGOP, Pat McCrory, Politics
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